Trauma-informed somatic therapy & coaching in the Northern Rivers

Relational, nervous system-focused therapeutic coaching for sensitive, visionary women ready to move beyond old survival patterns — with Somatic Experiencing®, womb work, breathwork and somatic touch

You’ve done the inner work. You understand your patterns. And you can feel a bigger life pressing to come through you — the work and the love you know you’re here for.

Yet in the moments that matter, you still hold back or lose yourself in connection.

You’re standing at a threshold, and your body is asking for something deeper than insight.

Maybe you know these moments…

It may feel like you’ve been shedding skins for years

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You are in the right place if …

  • You are high-functioning, sensitive, and deeply perceptive — but notice how your system defaults to people-pleasing, control, withdrawal, or over-responsibility when closeness or desire arises

  • You might find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or constantly on edge —
    or going numb, shutting down, or disconnecting from yourself when things become too much

  • You long for real intimacy and emotional depth and are done with push–pull dynamics, polarity games, or performing a version of yourself to be loved

  • You sense you are here for something larger — your own work, your voice, your way of leading or creating — but every time you try to step toward it, something in your body holds you back. You know it is not a strategy problem.

  • Your voice, sensuality, creativity, and power want to be fully alive — but shame, inhibition, or self-protection still live in your body

  • You are moving through a time of transition — where old ways of relating no longer fit, and something new is not yet fully formed

  • You’ve already tried to understand and shift your patterns cognitively —
    but something still isn’t changing, and you’re ready for deeper somatic work that takes your nervous system and attachment patterns on board

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IN THE PAST MY WORK HAS SUPPORTED CLIENTS TO

→ Shift how they show up in relationships: letting go of people-pleasing, power struggles and shutting down, and learning to stay connected to themselves while trust, desire and emotional depth grow again

→ Work through developmental and relational trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD: moving from chronic anxiety, numbness or hyper-independence into embodied safety and a deeper capacity for connection

→ Release sexual shame and dissociation: reclaiming pleasure and erotic aliveness after abuse, medical or birth trauma, pregnancy loss, abortion or years of self-suppression

→ Move out of burnout and over-functioning: restoring nervous system capacity and building a life and work that no longer require self-abandonment

→ Interrupt intergenerational and patriarchal conditioning: loosening inherited patterns of compliance and self-erasure, so change ripples through their relationships, family and work

→ Reclaim their voice and creativity: moving from self-censorship and the fear of being “too much” into clear boundaries and grounded, embodied truth

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The foundation of real, embodied change lies in your body

Ein Auszug eines Briefs oder einer E-Mail mit hervorgehobenen Absätzen, in dem es um persönliche Entwicklung, Selbstliebe und das Erkennen von Gefühlen geht.
Brief mit Danksagung an Clara für Therapiesitzungen und positive Veränderungen.
Auszug aus einem Text, der positive Veränderungen und die Fähigkeit, innerhalb kurzer Zeit tiefgreifende innere Umwandlungen zu bewirken, beschreibt, mit hervorgehobenen Worten wie 'was', 'was macht', 'lebensverändernd'.

How this work unfolds

01 — Nervous System

Safety & Capacity

Everything begins in the body.
We start by restoring nervous system safety and capacity, meeting survival patterns exactly where they were formed — below conscious control.

As your system learns that closeness, desire, and visibility are no longer dangerous, emotional resilience grows.
You move out of chronic survival responses and into a felt sense of safety, presence, and inner steadiness.

02 — Relating & Repair

Connection without self-abandonment

From inner safety, we work directly with emotions, attachment and relational dynamics. Old patterns around people-pleasing, control, withdrawal, or over-responsibility can reorganise.

You learn to stay connected to yourself while being in connection with others — allowing clear boundaries, honest needs, and real intimacy to coexist.

03 — Embodiment

Expression, aliveness, truth

As the nervous system and relational field stabilise, your full aliveness becomes available again — not as something you perform, but as something you inhabit.
Creativity, sensuality, voice, pleasure, and leadership emerge from the body — capable of being seen and taking up space.

From here, you no longer live from coping or compliance, but from embodied truth — building relationships, work, and a life that actually reflect who you are.

How to work with me

Sessions are available:

  • Online or In person in the Northern Rivers

  • In English or German

  • Each session is 60 or 90 minutes and held in a focused, somatic and relational field

  • In-person sessions can include trauma-informed somatic touch (consent-based, fully clothed), womb-centred bodywork or breathwork — depending on what your system invites

Breathwork

Conscious, connected breathing helps you move beneath the mind, into feelings and energy that have been held tight for a long time. You lie down and I guide you through the whole journey. Emotion, tears, laughter or trembling may come, and we let them move somatically. Afterwards we take time to integrate, so you leave grounded. I draw on my training in rebirthing breathwork and pace each journey to your system.

Somatic Experiencing®

My SE work is relational and attachment-centered. Many of our deepest patterns were formed in our earliest relationships, so that’s where we meet them, slowly and in doses your system can integrate. With parts work, we get to know the parts of you that learned to please, protect or hide. Your body learns it’s safe to stay yourself in connection.

Womb-centered bodywork

Our womb holds what we often can’t say: shame, grief, old hurts around sexuality and loss, and the patterns passed down through the women in our family. In womb work we bring breath, awareness, sound and touch to the belly and pelvis, so what’s been held can soften and move. Many women find their pleasure, their intuition and their creative life-force return from there. My work is rooted in teachings from Mexican and Guatemalan medicine women and the Munay-Ki Rite of the Womb.

Somatic Touch (fully clothed)

Some patterns formed before we had words, and words alone don’t reach them. Supportive touch can help your nervous system feel held and settle in a way talking can’t. It’s especially powerful for attachment wounds and for women who’ve always been the one holding everyone else. Touch is always an invitation: we agree on it beforehand and you can change your mind at any moment.

Pricing & Packages

SINGLE SESSION


60 minutes · 220 AUD
90 minutes · 330 AUD

To feel the work in your body, drop in when life calls for it, or meet a specific moment with full presence. For breathwork and womb work, I recommend 90 minutes, so your system has time to land and integrate.

MONTHLY PACKAGE


4 × 60-minute sessions · 800 AUD per month

Weekly sessions with steady, ongoing support while we work with one theme or pattern. The weekly rhythm gives your nervous system time to integrate between sessions while staying connected to the process.

3 MONTHS

10 × 60-minute sessions · 1,900 AUD
[Payment plan: 3 × 650 AUD]

The deepest container, for rewiring attachment and relational patterns at the root. Ten sessions over three months, at a pace that leaves room for integration, your cycle and your life.

Textausschnitt eines Erfahrungsberichts über eine Sitzung mit Clara, die emotionales Wachstum und Angstbewältigung beschreibt.
Auszug aus einem Text mit hervorgehobenen Worten und Phrasen wie "WOW", "I am still basking in the most wonderful inner peace" und "finally shift my energy".
Hervorgehobener Text in einem Dokument: "so very grateful for our sessions and for your ability to create such a safe space for healing" und "feeling some great internal changes lately that help me feel more stable."

My work weaves together my expertise and training in:

  • Somatic Experiencing® & Trauma processing
  • Polyvagal theory & nervous system repair
  • Attachment-focused psychotherapy & counselling
  • Transpersonal counselling & humanistic psychology
  • Somatic Touch (consent-based, titrated)
  • Dance & movement therapy
  • Rebirthing breathwork
  • Womb-centEred embodiment work
  • Traditional Tantric (Kashmir Shaivism) & Yogic practices
  • Shamanic Medicine work
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daniela’s story ♡


“A session with Clara can change your entire life.”

When I came to Clara, I was in the middle of an emotional breakdown — traumatised, uprooted, and full of fear. I had tried conventional therapy before, but it never truly moved anything. With Clara, it was different.

In just one session, I was able to release a toxic attachment I had held onto for three years. Something shifted deeply inside me. Suddenly, there was peace. No more pain. No more resentment. And I realised: I can give myself what I had been desperately seeking from others. That was liberation.

Clara’s work goes deep — and it works. I feel safe in my body again, connected to my intuition, grounded, clear, and powerful. I now know who I am, what I want, and that I can trust myself.

This work changed my life. Truly.

— Daniela W.

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sabines story ♡


“This was the most important and best investment in myself I have ever made.”

Through working with Clara, I feel like myself again. I feel connected, aligned, and able to live my purpose. I feel safe in my body and capable of meeting any challenge.

I was able to release so many old patterns and integrate past trauma. I never imagined this kind of change could be possible in just three months.

I have regained my joy for life, and I feel empowered to actively shape my life and live my dreams.

My relationships have reached a new level of intimacy, because I am now able to express my feelings, needs, and boundaries with clarity.

Thank you, Clara, for your profound work. I truly feel like a new person — and fully myself again.

— Sabine R.

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Get to know me

I’m Clara — a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, trauma therapist and embodiment mentor working at the intersection of nervous system healing, attachment, and emotional depth.

I support deeply feeling, intuitive and high-capacity women — including practitioners and spaceholders — who are done shrinking themselves for love, belonging, or success.

My own path taught me to stop hiding my too much — my depth, emotions and longing for intimacy — and to reclaim my aliveness through my body & feeling.

I  midwive women to restore safety in their bodies, reclaim intimacy without self-abandonment, and step back into the truth, power and aliveness they were never meant to lose.


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“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves


This IS for you if…

✓   You’ve done the inner work — and are ready to embody it.
You want your truth, desires, and boundaries to become lived, not just understood.

✓You take responsibility for your patterns and your life.
You’re willing to meet your nervous system honestly and choose differently from embodied knowing.

✓ You are a deeply sensitive, creative woman ready to take up space.
You’re done shrinking or performing — and ready to live from presence, truth, and self-trust.


This is NOT for you if…

X You’re looking for change without engaging in a deeper process of self-responsibility and reflection.

X You prefer to stay on the level of understanding, rather than working with the body, emotions, and nervous system directly.

X You are currently in an acute crisis or need immediate psychological support — in this case, working with a clinical psychologist may be more appropriate.

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FAQ’s

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